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Exciting news, possum! This November, I will be at Romantasy in the Red Room , Perth’s newest book event for lovers of romance, romantasy, fantasy and sci-fi. Apparently I’m one of only a few sci-fi bods attending on the day, so if this genre floats your spaceboat, come say g’day and nerd out with me 🤓 It’ll be the first time I’ve ever tabled at an event like this. COVID scuppered my plans to…
Thought you might fancy a wee look at my draft for The Annihilation of Satine . This manuscript has gone places I was not expecting. Everything was planned to a T, only to take a sudden turn into surprise territory. And yet, I like it. She had a hot-cold way about her, defiant in how her posture suggested she owned the place despite being here against her will. But the devastation on her face when…
I have been remiss in updating this blog, but I promise I haven’t been neglecting you guys! Back in February, a huge pile of work and life admin fell into my lap, sparking a big review of my online, task management, and back-of-house activities. Basically, all the extra stuff that supports my writing. Which includes where and how I’ll be blogging this year. Tl;dr, I’m definitely blogging here.…
Thought you might like a little sneak peek at my WIP for part 2 of the Satine series. I’m not sure yet when this story will get released, but I’m pretty sure these words should survive the final edit and make it to launch. “Are you serious?” He studied my face. “Is something the matter?” “No, I just … You mean we’re just going to do it? Just like that?” “Do what?” “Fuck. We’re going to fuck now,…
Yet We Sleep, We Dream got a mention in Perth is OK! yesterday 😱 That’s my city’s most renowned independent local paper, so this is a BIG deal for a minnow like me! READ: Smut & Spice and all things (naughty) and nice: Perth’s best bookstores for romantasy reads And yes, I can verify it’s true – I’m stocked at Boundless Books and well proud of it too. Boundless is fully stocked in both the…
My time travel novelette is finally launching in October after being on the back burner for over a year! This little novelette has been on quite the journey – researching it, writing it, and preparing it for what eventually was a non-release, saw me through a train of life events, including losing a loved one, my first public author appearance, the disappearance of a dear friend, a family…
blog.jlperidot.com has moved to jlperidot.com/blog. Please update your bookmarks, etc. like it’s 1996 😆 I am trying to figure out how to migrate my fediverse followers. In theory, such a thing should be possible since other Fediverse systems like Mastodon let you bring your followers with you when you move. But my blog uses Bridgy Fed , and there’s nothing in the docs about how to do this. In the…
If you’d told me Nolan’s Hunger was a paranormal romance, I would have thought twice before picking it up. It’s my own fault. Bingeing the entire Twilight film series over a couple of weeks left me with a warped impression of what paranormal romance means these days. Never mind that it once meant Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles with intense reflective moments about love and the human condition. No…
Recently, I asked an online community for a book recommendation and got a reply with a link to a generic Goodreads list. It was a bittersweet experience. On the one hand, someone was kind enough to look something up for me, which I certainly appreciate. But on the other hand, there was nothing inherently human about their response. For all I knew, the reply could have come from a chatbot that…
The computer has freed man’s brain. But computers did not go hand by bloody hand across The Clivorn’s crags. Only a living man, stupid enough to wonder, to drudge for knowledge on his knees. To risk. To experience. To be lonely. No cheap way. — James Tiptree Jr., “And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways”, Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975) This quote is from my favourite short story by science…
It’s probably time for another status update, as so much has happened since the last one . I’ve been (reasonably) well-behaved lately as far as getting things done and not burning out have gone. Here are some noteworthy bits and bobs. The book event at Durty Nelly’s The book event for Yet We Sleep, We Dream went sooooooo well! Thank you HEAPS to everyone who came, who listened to my ramblings, who…
It Starts with a Kiss is my standalone sci-fi office romance novella originally published by Kyanite Publishing in 2019. It’s a bit of a love letter to the underestimated women in technology, who I hope now in 2024 are more appropriately regarded. Celeste is the she in today’s snippet, a bright and somewhat naïve engineer who doesn’t mind her dead-end job at what’s basically a post office on the…